Kostomloty quarry - sample 66 [Kowala Fm] (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Kostomloty, Poland (50.9° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kowala Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• AGE: early Famennian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from sample 66, immediately above the Frasnian-Famennian boundary.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Semi-restricted back-shoal
• LITHOLOGY: Packstones and grainstones enriched in ooids, peloids,clumps, and intraclasts. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly housed at the State Geological Institute in Warsaw (PIG).

Primary reference: J.-G. Casier, X. Devleeschouwer, F. Lethiers, A. Preat, and G. Racki. 2000. Ostracods and sedimentology of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary beds in the Kostomloty section (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 70:53-74 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162219: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ostracods; other taxa mentioned, but not specified. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with apparently modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Graviidae
Selebratina sp.
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Sulcella (Postsulcella) kostomlotyensis
 Platycopida - Coelonellidae
Coelonella sp.
Coelonella sp. Stewart 1936 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Cryptophyllus sp.
Cryptophyllus sp. Levinson 1951 ostracod